The *Cahiers de RECITS* (Research and Studies on Industrial, Technological, and Societal Change) aim to highlight the research of members of the eponymous laboratory while also welcoming contributions from external researchers on topics such as the history of technology and industry, economics, management, and, more generally, any field of the humanities that seeks to understand the phenomenon of technology in all its synchronic and diachronic dimensions by situating it within its complexity and context.
RECITS Journal No. 12 - 2025
The Origins of Technical Democracy: Technical Creativity
Publication date:June 2025
. Dimensions:16 x 22 cm / 280 pages
Paperback:21 euros – ISBN 979-10-91901-74-1
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Contents: IssueNo. 12 of*Cahiers de RECITS* includes:
PART I. What Kind of Technical Democracy for Tomorrow?
• Luc Rojas: *Le Journal des mines*, a Tool for Rationalizing the Underground Environment, or the Struggle of a Major State Technical Corps Against Landowners’ Illegal Mining (1794–1815)
• Francesca Bray and Aurélie Brayet: Technical Democracy and Constructive Consumption: Two Approaches to Understanding the Phenomenon of the “Arts Ménagers” in Postwar France?
• Vincent Dray: Constructing Technology as One Creates Art. Genesis, Contexts, and Means of an Experiment in Technical Creativity
• Noémie Boeglin: The Story of a Fictional Invention: Lou Swift’s Solar Cells in *Ecotopia Emerging*
• Guillaume Bagnolini: Biohacking or the Renewal of Technical Democracy: Between Dreams and Disillusionment?
• Van Troi Tran: Experiencing the Meal of the Future at World’s Fairs: Shanghai 2010, Milan 2015
PART II. Sustainable Mobility in Medium-Sized Cities
• Ali Hasan: Public Policy on Mobility in Medium-Sized Cities in the Champagne-Ardenne Region. Mobility at the Intersection of Institutional Changes and Urban Development Projects
• Teddy Delaunay: From Digital Technology to the Local Level? When Carpooling Is Integrated into Public Transportation Network Planning. The case of the “Covoit’ici” pilot project
• Abdelhakim Kebiche: Local Challenges of the Sétif Tramway; Toward a “City Project” to Build the City of Tomorrow?
• Magali Pierre and Gaëtan Brisepierre: The Decision to Install Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Condominiums: The Paradox of the “Right to a Charging Port” at the Dawn of the Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles
RECITS Journal No. 11 - 2019
Women in Technical and Scientific Education
14–18: Through (Inter)national Perspectives
Publication date:November 2020
. Dimensions:16 x 22 cm / 264 pages
Paperback:21 euros – ISBN 979-10-91901-44-4
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Contents: IssueNo. 11 of*Cahiers de RECITS* includes:
PART I
• Debates surrounding *The Big Parade*. The Hollywood Film in Question
• The French Reception of Herbert Wilcox’s *Dawn* (1928): Cinema as a Reflection of Nationalism
• *Okraïna* (1933)
• Organic Construction, Death, and Sacrifice: The Technological Imaginary of German Nationalism in the Interwar Period
• Monicelli’s*La Grande Guerra*: A Break with Conventional Representations of World War I in Italian Cinema.
PART II
• Drawing schools for young women: The example of Limoges, 1850s–1880s
• The role of women in technical agricultural education in France, 19th–20th centuries
• Gender in agricultural vocational training: The case of French viticulture (1880–1960)
• Technical rural education for women. The example of several private agricultural home economics schools in the Doubs region (1900s–1960s).
• Women Engineers: The Case of the First Female Graduates of the École supérieure d’Agriculture d’Angers
• Female Engineering Students at UTBM (1985–2016): Between the Clergy, Maternal Influence, and Modernity
REPORT
• Reflections on the History of Science and Technology Based on a Recent Publication
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RECITS Journal No. 10 - 2014
Education and Technical Training of Workers and Technicians (18th–20th Centuries)
Publication date:February 2015
. Dimensions:16 x 22 cm / 272 pages
Paperback:21 euros – ISBN 979-10-91901-03-1
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Contents: IssueNo. 10 ofCahiers de RECITS includes:
• The Dresden Technical Training Institute: The Origins of a Polytechnic School in the German-Speaking World
• Courses for Adult Workers at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in the Early19th Century
• Learning Dairy Techniques: Fruitières in Franche-Comté and the ENIL in Mamirolle in the Late 19th Century
• “Intellectual Workers.” Italian Workers Facing Technological Progress
• Parisian Buses and the Pioneering Development of Psychotechnics: Jean-Maurice Lahy at the STCRP, 1910s–1920s
• Technical Training for Rural Crafts in France in the 1920s
• The Landscape of Worker Training at Peugeot and Alsthom (1914–1970)
• Vocational Training for Steelworkers in Lorraine (from the Late 1940s to 2006)
• The Silver River, or the Fever of Unbridled Capitalism
• The Labor Crisis in*It’s a Free World…*(Ken Loach, 2007)
• How the Navy Anchored the Manufacturing of Chains for Its Ships at the Forges de la Chaussade (1823–1971)
RECITS Journal, No. 9—2013
African Cinemas
Publication date: November2013
. Dimensions:16 x 22 cm / 92 pages
Paperback:14 euros – ISBN 978-2-914279-86-4
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Contents: IssueNo. 9 of*Cahiers de RECITS* providesan opportunity to publish the proceedings of discussions that have examined the colonial and postcolonial periods, without overlooking postcolonial perspectives. The seven contributions in this issue do not aim to provide an overview of a complex cinematic tradition—one that should be considered in the plural rather than the singular—but rather to shine a spotlight on classics of the genre or, conversely, on important films that took a very long time to find their audience.
The“Varia” section offers a wide range of case studies focusing primarily on industrial and technical changes, in keeping with the primary purpose ofthe Cahiers de RECITS.
•Chronicle of the Years of Embers: When Cinema Engages with Algerian History
•Camp de Thiaroye(Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow, 1988): A Committed Indictment of Colonial Arbitrariness, the Dramatized Memory of a Little-Known Event
• African Cinema: Anti-Colonialism in the 1950s and 1960s
• The Imaginary World of the Algerian War Through Algerian Cinema
•October in Paris: A Vehicle for Remembering a Massacre
• Presentation of the film*China Is Still Far Away*(Malek Bensmaïl, 2008)
• Interview and preliminary analysis: Jean-Marie Téno—the emigrant’s perspective
• Félix Devillaine (1823–1913) or the figure of the “practicing engineer”
• The Subcontracting Relationship in the Automotive Industry from the Pays de Montbéliard to the Southern Rhine: What Differences and Continuities Throughout the 20th Century?
• “Advertising Professionals” or “Advertisers”? How Should We Refer to the Men and Women in the Advertising Industry?
• France: Thought Without Technology?
RECITS Journal, No. 8 - 2011
Technical Risk
Publication date: July2012
. Dimensions:16 x 22 cm / 176 pages
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Contents: Issue No.8 of Cahiers 2011 explores the concept of risk, one aspect of the “dark” side of technology.
• Technical risk in the context of the history of technical cultures
• Technical risk management and safety culture
• Technical risks in island environments (Reunion Island)
• Coal dust
• Risk management in the civilian nuclear sector
• Electrification of bush settlements in French Equatorial Africa
• Ferdinand Fillod, the dream of metal housing
• Alsatian refugees in Northern Franche-Comté (1916–1919)
RECITS Journal No. 7 - 2010
This issue consists of four sections: “
” • “Culture and Technical Training”
• “Mining Policies”
• “Maritime Techniques”
• “Film: Portraits of the Worker”
• “Miscellaneous”
RECITS Journal, No. 6 - 2008
This issue consists of four sections:
• Engineering Practice and Culture
• Technology and Industrial Competition
• Historical Anthropology of the Industrial Revolution
• Miscellaneous
RECITS Journal, No. 5 - 2007
This issue consists of five sections:
• Memory and History
• Businesses in Franche-Comté
• Creation, Invention, and Dissemination
• Human Capital: Training, Maintenance, and Distortion
• Cinema and History: Cities and Freedom
RECITS Journal, No. 4—2006
This issue consists of three sections:
• Art and Technology
• Work and Workers
• Production and Society
RECITS Journal, No. 3 - 2004
This issue consists of three sections:
• Papers from the seminar “At the Frontiers of Patents”
• Various articles on technological choices, innovation strategies
, and information policies
• Research by members of the RECITS laboratory
RECITS Journals No. 2 - 2002/2003
This issue includes the papers presented at the “War, Transportation, and Industry” seminar held in Sévenans, as well as articles related to the RECITS laboratory’s research activities.
RECITS Journals No. 1 - 2000/2001
Issue No. 1 of “Cahiers de RECITS” presents the Laboratory’s 2001–2002 activities:
• Papers from the seminar “Actors and Logics of Territory”
• The Laboratory’s research activities
• Research projects by members of the Young Research Team
